Haircloth fabric



V. PASTORE HAIRCLOTH FABRIC Feb; 526 1924.-

Fiied July 20. 1920 Patented l 'ebo 2d, lQZt,

VINCEN'E IPASTORE, 0F NORWICH, CQNNEC'EICUT.

HAIRCLOTH FABRIC.

Application filed July 20, 1920. Serial lilo. SEZWG.

7'0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, VINcEN'r Farmer,

a citizen of the United States residing at Norwich, in the county of ewLondon, in the State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new anduseful Improvement in Hair-cloth Fabrics, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

'this improvement relates to hair cloth of the type used commonly bytailors and others for stiffening garments, said cloth comprisingusually a cotton warp and a fill-' ing of still hair, my present purposebeing to provide simple and inexpensive means for preventing theaccidental disarrangement of the filling hairs with respect to the warpin the woven fabric.

In the building up of garments, particularly mens coats, hair cloth ofthe class referred to is commonly utilized for stiffening such garmentsand it is the common experience that the wearers of the garments areannoyed by the working loose of the stid filling hairs which, being assharp as fine needles, readily prick through the cloth and must then bedrawn out and thrown away. To overcome this objectionable action or thestifiening the cut ends of said hairs are sometimes protected, andprevented from escaping, by binding the edges of the stifiening fabricbut this involves an expenditure of time and materiel which it isdesirable to avoid, especially in'cheap clothing. My present purpose isto provide simple and cheap means in such stiffening cloth whereby thefilling hairs are positively anchored in the warp and therefore saidhairs cannot escape and, with this desirable purpose in view, I haveprovided the fabric illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which theFigure 1 is-a face view vofonehalf of the front of a coat showing alsothe stiffening fabric outlined thereon. Figure 2 is a relativelyenlarged view of the 1 upper portion of said stifi'eningcloth and Figure3 is a transverse sectional view of said cloth taken at the line 3-3 ofsaid Figure 2.

Referring to these drawings, the letter 0: indicates a portion ofa coatfront and .6 denotes the portion of said front which is to be foldedback along the dotted line a to provide the customary lapel. 0? denotesa stidening of hair cloth which may be of any desired size and shape; ashere shown it is designed to stid'en the front of the garment andparticularly the shoulder and neck portions; the edge portion of saidstidening being partially overlapped and enclosed when the lapel portionis folded back and pressed down. The essential feature of my' presentimprovement is in the novel construction of the hair cloth fabric, as lhave already stated. The warp threads of said frabricare indicated inthe drawings by the letter a and the filling or weft by the letter f,the warp being cotton or other suitable material which is more or lessflexible and the filling being of relative, ly stifier material such ashorse hair or bristles. Owing to the stid, wiry nature of the fillingsuch fabrics cannot be beaten up close enough in the weaving operationto crimp the filling and, as a result, the filling hairs may be easilydrawn out and, unless their cut ends are protected in some manner, saidhairs work out through the garment fabric, as l have explained. In orderto prevent such objectionable working out of the hairs I subject thewoven fabric to treatment which, in efi'ect, cements the hiing to thewarp. This may be accomplished very cheaply and efi'ectively by passingthe fabric through a solution of white lead which has been brought to alimpid consistency by the aid of turpentine, alcohol, benzine or thelike, which readily saturates the fabric and, when dissipated byevaporation, leaves the hardened lead to operate as a binder between thewarp and filling without, however, objectionably stifiening the treatedfabric.

In the Figure 3 of the drawin the binder of lead or other material, as te be, is denoted by the letter 9'.

The cost of thus treating the fabric is very small when compared withthe resulting advantages and l find, by repeated prac tical use of suchan improved fabric, that it serves the desired purpose mostsatisfactorily.

The white lead wherever referredto in the specification refers to thattype of base for paint which is known as the commercial white leadand'is in the form of a paste and composed of a large percentage ofwhite lead and a small percentage of linseed oil. The composition of thewhite lead for ractical purposes is approximately 92% ct case may Gilmil

ltlti white lead mixed with approximately 8% cloth impregnated withcommercial white of linseed oil. I lead as a binder. a

Having thus described my invention, I 3. A process of treating haircloth to claim maintain the hairs in position in the cloth 1. As a newarticle of manufacture, hair which comprises dissolving a commercial '15cloth and a 'cementitious paste formed of a base of white lead in areadily evaporable commercial base for white paints for flexisolution,saturating the fabric with such bly binding the Warp and filling of thecloth solution and then evaporating the solution. toget er.

2. As a new article of manufacture, hair VINCENT PASTORE.

